I’m living my life, not buying a lifestyle.
BARBARA KRUGERArt is as heavy as sorrow, as light as a breeze, as bright as an idea, as pretty as a picture, as funny as money, and as fugitive as fraud!
More Barbara Kruger Quotes
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We are obliged to steal pieces of language, both visual and textual.
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Photography has saturated us as spectators from its inception amidst a mingling of laboratorial pursuits and magic acts to its current status as propagator of convention, cultural commodity, and global hobby.
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What I’m trying to do is create moments of recognition.
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Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
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I work with pictures and words because they have the ability to determine who we are, what we want to be and what we become.
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The different aspects of my activity, whether it’s writing criticism, or doing visual work that incorporates writing, or teaching, or curating, is all of a single cloth, and I don’t make any separation in terms of those practices.
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Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It’s because I understand short attention spans.
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I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
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You make history when you do business.
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Love is something you fall into.
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I want to speak, show, see, and hear outrageously astute questions and comments. I want to be on the sides of pleasure and laughter and to disrupt the dour certainties of pictures, property, and power.
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The place of the arts in the classroom is essential in encouraging invention, ambition, and an understanding of the importance and pleasures of living an examined life.
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You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.
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It entered the visual vocabulary of photographers, painters and sculptors and focused on what pictures and words look like and what they can mean.
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I think architecture is one of the predominant orderings of social space. It can construct and contain our experiences. It defines our days and nights. It literally puts us in our place.
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